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Clock-Based vs. Timer-Based Rounds
The History of Q15 Safety Checks
If you've ever worked in a behavioral health facility, you’re undoubtedly familiar with Q15 safety checks—the routine practice of visually observing patients...
Does VisibleHand Integrate with my EHR? (Yes)
VisibleHand integrates with your EHR, but is that at the best option? Learn why many programs opt to use VisibleHand as a stand-alone tool.
Care, Accountability, and Patient Safety Go Hand in Hand
Amanda @ MHC-TN shares her experience pairing safety compliance with staff mentorship.
CRI-Help: Where Compassion Meets Innovation
CRI Help selects VisibleHand for patient safety goals.
South Coast Counseling Adopts VisibleHand – A Customer's Perspective
Adapting to Technological Advancements: South Coast Counseling Embraces VisibleHand South Coast Counseling, a leader in mental health services, recently...
Deep Empathy Leads to Safer & More Dignified Psychiatric Treatment - The Story of JT Shoe Stays
How JT Shoe Stays created a new shoelace for psychiatric hospital patients. They are safer and preserve preserve dignity.
Five Practical Tips to Elevate Patient Safety in Your Psychiatric Hospital
Top 5 tips to improve patient safety at your psychiatric hospital
Northbound Treatment saves hundreds of hours, improves patient safety.
Northbound Treatment uses VisibleHand to improve patient safety and reduce workload by hundreds of hours.
What Do Health Techs Really Do? 📽
This "day in the life" video of a health tech shows what it looks like to work in a modern mental health hospital.
The Unsung Heroes: Being a Mental Health Tech in a Psych Hospital
Being a mental health tech in a psych hospital is a rewarding and demanding position.
UCSF Study - Technology in Long Term Care
Emerging technologies have an impact on the healthcare workforce in addition to the patients they serve.
Psychiatric hospital Q15 trends
We analyzed VisibleHand’s database to help you optimize Q15 forms & team training - the equivalent of tallying 1.5 million Q15's.
Going digital for Q15s and safety checks?
Even for a seemingly straightforward process like safety checks, there are a number of factors to assess before transitioning from paper.
Three NAATP members innovate to reduce safety events with VisibleHand
All three organizations improved safety, even while treating more acute clients. Elopement and wandering were reduced by over 50%.
VisibleHand Successfully Tackles Overprescribing in Behavioral Health
VisibleHand was recently highlighted by Samsung Insights for work with assisted living providers. Read about VisibleHand's long-term care solution, Foresight,...
What is a Q15 Minute Safety Check?
Basic Q15 Minute Safety Check Processes The primary goal of inpatient behavioral treatment is to keep patients safe from themselves and each other while they...
Addiction treatment provider, A Mission for Michael, innovates to improve patient safety
"We couldn't say for sure if our staff were actually doing their rounds."
How to Create a Safety Staff Performance Score
We created the scoring system after analyzing hundreds of thousands of patient safety observations. Here, you can learn to build your own.
Improving care, compliance, and patient engagement - Denver North Case Study.
“I didn't consider that could anticipate resident needs before they happen."
No more ‘average’ health techs!
Most units have high and low performing staff members. The trick is knowing who is who. See our analysis of 100k+ observations.
Q15 Safety Checks // Goals + Performance Indicators
Continuing on our Q15 (safety check) deep dive series. In this post we will cover the goals of Q15 safety checks and the attributes we see in high performing...
Reportable Events Drop with VisibleHand
Samsung Insights publishes article on the impact of VisibleHand at long-term care provider, Bethany Life. Through the use of Foresight (long term care behavior...
ROI - Digital Rounding for Q15s & safety checks
What is the true cost of an adverse safety event at a psychiatric hospital or addiction treatment center?
Skilled Nursing Behavior Tracking - Review from Social Services Director
I want to inform you of the success we have achieved with using Foresight. Using this service has assisted with:
Using Technology to Improve Behavior Outcomes in Nursing Homes
VisibleHand's software, Foresight, is tested, measured, and analyzed in a new Squire Report released by the Quality Insights Quality Innovation Network....
Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas use VisibleHand to improve Q15 safety checks and patient safety
The Center for Improvement in Healthcare Quality (CIHQ) shares a case study written by Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas (BHSET) regarding their use of...
What do psych hospitals record on their Q15 sheets?
What do psych hospitals record on their Q15 sheets? We analyzed the more than 300 survey responses collected APNA.
Why Safety Checks are so Hard.
A 100-bed psych hospital conducts 9,600+ Q15 checks per day! What makes Q15 compliance so hard?